What would you say are the fundamental reasons for European supremacy starting in the late medieval period...

what would you say are the fundamental reasons for European supremacy starting in the late medieval period? what were the circumstances in Europe that allowed for global domination that didn't exist in china for example.

>starting in the late medieval period?
Yeap, that Ottoman advance sure was Europe being dominant alright.

Investment banking. Formalized empiricism.

why isn't japan blue?

and if they are counting russia as part of europe, NK should be blue as well

Check out brain volumes stratified by race and you will have your a answer.

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Of course. That's why the majority of Northern Europeans were living in tribalism until the late antiquity. Nordic brain power is truly a terrifying thing.

Brainpower is generally underutilized until you have systems set up to put it to good work. Like math.

>muh confirmation bias
>muh pseudoscience
huuuuuuurrrrrrrrrr

>live on small resource starved continent
>look south
>enormous resource rich land
>look far west
>two enormous resource rich lands

Hmm I wonder why user.

So...Where was the brain volumes before, when Europe was litearl shit hole of the world?

You do realize such systems have to be made correct? The lack of those systems didn't stop Middle Easterners, Indians, Chinese, Meso-americans, and Southern Europeans from creating them.

The Ottomans' threat put an end to most of the infighting and the Europeans were fated (thanks to Catholic universities and to the Catholic hierarchy) to become the most advanced civilization anyway.

The Mongols lost interest by the time they reached Kiev. Also no one wanted to go anywhere near Europe during The Black Death. After that the spread of information thanks to the printing press is pretty much what cultivated intellectual superiority and advanced learning of that time.

Is that a trick map, because I can't distinguish the color of the Never Colonized and the Colonized.

Something about discovering America and guns and boats.

Do you have red-green blindness?

>Partial European control or influence
Really pushing it, arent we? What does it even mean, how can you determine whether there is such a thing present? How can such a vague concept be delineated?

>what would you say are the fundamental reasons for European supremacy starting in the late medieval period?
Competition between relatively small nations forces each state to perform better or perish. Anything that can give an advantage has to be utilized or you may find yourself worse off. This political climate is very suitable for innovation and development. China and other large empires were mostly interested in maintaining their power and therefore hostile to any changes that may turn out to be a formidable threat to the status quo.

Then there is that whole Mongol thing. It has been suggested that Europe benefitted most of the trade routes and innovation brought by the Mongols, yet suffered the least from their invasions. Mongols brought religious tolerance, global trade, and centralized power to Europe.

>The Ottomans' threat put an end to most of the infighting and the Europeans were fated
>Ottos BTFO the Crusader force in Varna.
>Westerncunts lose interest.
>By almost the start of the first half of the 16th Century infighting in Europe increased due to protestantism
Dat unity alright.

>China and other large empires were mostly interested in maintaining their power and therefore hostile to any changes that may turn out to be a formidable threat to the status quo.
Those memes again.

This is kinda right. The corporation (more than banking) ignited a huge amount of trade, which mobilized merchants and gave Europeans a solid reason to colonize....so it could control those traded resources around the globe. But also, being generally more technically advanced than the rest of the world gave the Europeans a huge leg up as well.

>south korea
>not a western puppet

>not a western puppet
American puppet*

Fixed

You forgot your tripcode turkroach

The Mediterranean linked a vast area allowing technology to spread rapidly.

From the time of Charlemagne onwards much of Europe was opened up to agriculture and it became a population center like the indo-gangetic plain and north China plain.

Much of the world was undergoing a renaissance at the time, Europe was a little ahead because of these advantages. During the 15th century being just a few decades ahead technologically gave groups a huge advantage over their competitors. It also caused a positive feedback loop further widening the gap.